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20 Years Of Women Priests

EDM number 56 in 2014-15, proposed by Valerie Vaz on 09/06/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Equality and Religion and faith communities.

That this House notes that the Church of England has celebrated 20 years since the first women were ordained as priests on 12 March 1994; congratulates the first 32 women who were ordained and led the way for many more women to follow them; welcomes the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury during a service at St Paul's Cathedral on 3 May 2014 that men and women are equally icons, witnesses and vessels of Christ for the world; praises the progress that has been made, but also notes that there is still more work to do; and calls on the Government to encourage the Church of England's General Synod to bring in legislation for women bishops to be appointed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Valerie Vaz09/06/2014Walsall SouthLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley09/06/2014Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale09/06/2014MansfieldLabourSeconded
Hywel Williams10/06/2014ArfonPlaid CymruSeconded
Glenda Jackson10/06/2014Hampstead and KilburnLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin10/06/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Martin Caton10/06/2014GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn10/06/2014Islington NorthLabourSigned
John Leech10/06/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd11/06/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Ronnie Campbell11/06/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood11/06/2014Lanark and Hamilton EastLabourSigned
John McDonnell11/06/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Crausby12/06/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff12/06/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Tracey Crouch12/06/2014Chatham and AylesfordConservativeSigned
Lindsay Roy12/06/2014GlenrothesLabourSigned
Paul Flynn12/06/2014Newport WestLabourSigned
Mark Williams16/06/2014CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming16/06/2014Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Albert Owen16/06/2014Ynys MLabourSigned
Mike Hancock17/06/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis17/06/2014AberavonLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne18/06/2014Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Bob Russell19/06/2014ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey23/06/2014North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Naomi Long02/07/2014Belfast EastAllianceSigned

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